The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

May 2009

1

• Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.^[1]
• Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia.^[2]
• Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American penciler of comic books, prostate cancer.^[3]
• Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer.^[4]
• Norman Gash, 97, British historian.^[5]
• Brian Grove, 88, Australian cricketer.^[6]
• Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman.^[7]
• George Hannan, 98, Australian politician.^[8]
• Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer.^[9]
• Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, mayor of San Leandro, California.^[10]
• Derek Noonan, 62, British rugby league and rugby union player.^[11]
• Marc Rocco, 46, American film director (Murder in the First, Where the Day Takes You) and screenwriter.^[12]
• Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized.^[13]
• John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer.^[14]

2

• Alfred Appel, 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure.^[15]
• K. Balaji, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure.^[16]
• Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure.^[17]
• Víctor Andrés Catena, 84, Spanish screenwriter and director.^[18]
• Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure.^[19]
• Harold Hankins, 78, British electrical engineer and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of UMIST.^[20]
• Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician.^[21]
• Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer.^[22]
• Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.^[23]
• Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer.^[24]
• Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure.^[25]
• Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist.^[26]

3

• Dobby Campbell, 86, Scottish football player (Chelsea, Scotland) and manager.^[27]
• Robert B. Choate, Jr., 84, American food lobbyist.^[28]
• Committed, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[29]
• John Elsworthy, 77, Welsh football player (Ipswich Town).^[30]
• Hui Ki On, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer.^[31]
• Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.^[32]
• Ram Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.^[33]
• Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist.^[34]

4

• Nicholas Clemente, 80, American judge (New York Supreme Court).^[35]
• Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor and comedian (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH), writer and chef, kidney failure.^[36]
• Sir Geoffrey Foot, 93, Australian politician.^[37]
• Edward Stewart Kennedy, 97, American historian.^[38]
• Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness.^[39]
• Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung.^[40]
• Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor.^[41]
• Jane Randolph, 93, American actress.^[42]
• Gisela Stein, 73, German actress.^[43]

5

• Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.^[44]
• David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963).^[45]
• Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music).^[46]
• Dewey Smith, 36, American diver.^[47]
• Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer.^[48]
• Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist.^[49]

6

• Peyman Abadi, 37, Iranian actor, car accident.^[50]
• Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident.^[51]
• Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness.^[52]
• Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure.^[53]
• Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.^[54]
• Sima Eyvazova, 75, Azerbaijani diplomat, first Permanent Representative to the UN.^[55]
• Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.^[56]
• Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia.^[57]
• Lev Losev, 71, Russian poet and literary critic.^[58]
• Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer.^[59]
• W. Wesley Peterson, 85, American mathematician and computer scientist.^[60]
• Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general.^[61]
• Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.^[62]

7

• Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner.^[63]
• Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).^[64]
• Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma.^[65]
• Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun), throat cancer.^[66]
• John Furia, Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975).^[67]
• Alan Gilbertson, 81, New Zealand cricketer.^[68]
• Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver.^[69]
• David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer.^[70]
• Frank Melton, 60, American politician, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.^[71]
• John Murphy, 95, Irish building contractor.^[72]
• Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager.^[73]
• Brian Sorenson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.^[74]
• Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer.^[75]

8

• Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.^[76]
• Fons Brydenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer.^[77]
• Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia.^[78]
• Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia.^[79]
• Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995).^[80]
• Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident.^[81]
• Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer.^[82]
• Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer.^[83]
• Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets).^[84]

9

• Eileen Albright, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)^[85]
• Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer.^[86]
• Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer.^[87]
• Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure.^[88]
• Michael Fox, 75, British-born Israeli lawyer.^[89]
• Cyril Edwin Hart, 96, British forestry expert.^[90]
• Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer.^[91]
• David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness.^[92]
• Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament.^[93]
• Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer.^[94]
• Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall.^[95]
• Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer.^[96]
• Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian.^[97]
• George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot.^[98]

10

• Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, 45-46, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide.^[99]
• Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979).^[100]
• Sergio Escobedo, 78, Mexican Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.^[101]
• Johnnie Johnson, 91, English cricketer.^[102]
• James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke.^[103]
• Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot.^[104]
• Clive Scott, 64, British keyboardist and songwriter (Jigsaw), stroke.^[105]
• Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident.^[106]
• Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer.^[107]

11

• Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer.^[108]
• Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.^[109]
• Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–1958, 1959, 2003) and vice-president (2003–2005).^[110]
• Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack.^[111]
• Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player.^[112]
• Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon.^[113]
• Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress.^[114]
• Antonio Lopes dos Santos, 92, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1962–1966), Cape Verde (1969–1974).^[115]
• S. M. Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973).^[116]
• Peter Philips, 81, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1988).^[117]
• Sir Richard Posnett, 89, British colonial administrator, Governor of Belize (1972–1976) and Bermuda (1981–1983).^[118]
• Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer.^[119]

12

• Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure.^[120]
• Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia.^[121]
• Mohan Saliya Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness.^[122]
• Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer.^[123]
• Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter (Max Manus), cancer.^[124]
• Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack.^[125]
• Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke.^[126]
• Ted Sampley, 63, American POW/MIA activist, complications from heart surgery.^[127]
• Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia.^[128]
• Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver.^[129]

13

• Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer.^[130]
• Ron Cameron, 85, Canadian Olympic rower.Ron Cameron
• Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran.^[131]
• Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2.^[132]
• Don Cordner, 87, Australian footballer.^[133]
• Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.^[134]
• Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer.^[135]
• Ernest Kline, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1971–1979).^[136]
• Iwan Schmid, 61, Swiss Olympic cyclist.^[137]
• Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster.^[138]
• L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness.^[139]
• Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash.^[140]

14

• Barathea, 19, Irish racehorse, euthanized.^[141]
• Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer.^[142]
• Bob Boyd, 81, American football player.^[143]
• Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.^[144]
• Ken Hollyman, 86, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Newport County).^[145]
• Marian McDougall, 95, American amateur golfer.^[146]
• Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.^[147]
• William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema.^[148]
• Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall.^[149]
• George Williams, 69, American baseball player.^[150]

15

• Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996).^[151]
• Alexander Gordon Bearn, 86, British physician.^[152]
• Broad Brush, 26, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[153]
• Si Frumkin, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor.^[154]
• Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter.^[155]
• Mordechai Limon, 85, Israeli admiral, Commander of the Navy (1950–1954).^[156]
• Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara, 69, Senegalese economist and politician.^[157]
• Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide.^[158]
• Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.^[159]
• Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist.^[160]
• Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat.^[161]
• Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers.^[162]
• Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer.^[163]
• Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer.^[164]
• Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage.^[165]

16

• Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall.^[166]
• Antonio Chocano, 96, Guatemalan Olympic fencer and diplomat, emphysema.^[167]
• John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure.^[168]
• Henry David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness.^[169]
• Sándor Katona, 66, Hungarian footballer and Olympic champion.^[170]
• Craig G. Roberts, 78, American racehorse trainer.^[171]
• Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease.^[172]

17

• Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 92, Iranian cleric, heart disease.^{[citation needed]}
• Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet.^[173]
• Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone).^[174]
• Adolf Dickfeld, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.^[175]
• David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure.^[176]
• Murray Hamilton, 91, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1967–1982).^[177]
• Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure.^[178]
• David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia.^[179]
• Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer.^[180]
• Sunwoo Jin, 87, Korean politician and activist.^[181]
• Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer.^[182]
• Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital.^[183]
• Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure.^[184]
• William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack.^[185]
• Zdeněk Pospíšil, 84, Czech Olympic sprinter.^[186]
• Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor.^[187]
• Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease.^[188]
• Octavia St. Laurent, 45, American trans woman and performer.^[189]
• Al Tornabene, 86, American mobster.^[190]

18

• Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse).^[191]
• Carole Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer.^[192]
• Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.^[193]
• Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea.^[194]
• K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness.^[195]
• Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.^[196]
• Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer.^[197]
• Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes.^[198]
• Either killed in a missile attack or shot:
  • Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).^[199]
  • Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE.^{[199][200][201]}
  • Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan (aka "Colonel Soosai"), 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers).^[200][201]
  • Shanmugalingam Sivashankar (aka "Pottu Amman"), Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing.^[200][201]

19

• Michael Preston Barr, 82, American composer, diabetes.^[202]
• Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner.^[203]
• Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer.^[204]
• Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia.^[205]
• Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure.^[206]
• Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks).^[207]
• Herbert York, 87, American physicist.^[208]

20

• John Brown Jr., 88, American Navajo code talker.^[209]
• Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall).^[210]
• Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging.^[211]
• Alan Kelly, Sr., 72, Irish footballer (Preston North End, Republic of Ireland), cancer.^[212]
• Matthew Krel, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis.^[213]
• Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress.^[214]
• Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, 78, South Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975).^[215]
• Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer.^[216]
• Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer.^[217]
• María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.^[218]
• Noel Stanton, 82, British founder of The Jesus Army.^[219]
• Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer.^[220]
• Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma.^[221]
• Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.^[222]
• Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi).^[223]
• Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist.^[224]

21

• Ghader Abdollahzadeh, 83, Kurdish traditional musician.^[225]
• Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage.^[226]
• Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack.^[227]
• Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection.^[228]
• Barry England, 77, British novelist and playwright.^[229]
• Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident.^[230]
• Him Mark Lai, 83, American historian, bladder cancer.^[231]
• Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia.^[232]
• Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes.^[233]
• Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer.^[234]
• Kanagasabai Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician.^[235]
• Togo Tanaka, 93, American journalist, natural causes.^[236]

22

• Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet.^[237]
• Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician.^[238]
• Yeo Woon Kye, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer.^[239]

23

• Charles Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure.^[240]
• Sir Derek Bowett, 82, British academic lawyer, President of Queens' College, Cambridge (1970–1982).^[241]
• Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack.^[242]
• Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader.^[243]
• Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004).^[244]
• Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader.^[245]
• David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.^[246]
• Nicholas J. Phillips, 75, British physicist.^[247]
• Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician.^[248]
• Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping.^[249]
• Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990).^[250]

24

• Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose.^[251]
• Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer.^[252]

25

• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident.^[253]
• Billy Baxter, 70, Scottish footballer (Ipswich Town), cancer.^[254]
• Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer.^[255]
• Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.^[256]
• Charly Höllering, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack.^[257]
• Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician.^[258]
• Tomás Paquete, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.^[259]
• Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University).^[260]

26

• Antonio Braga, 80, Italian composer.^[261]
• Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker.^[262]
• Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[263]
• Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer.^[264]
• Doris Mühringer, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer.^[265]
• Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer.^[266]
• Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke.^[267]
• Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide.^[268]
• Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor.^[269]
• Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), haemolytic anemia.^[270]

27

• Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes.^[271]
• Thomas Franck, 77, American lawyer.^[272]
• Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics.^[273]
• Eugene F. Grant, 68, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Medford (1978–1980), leukaemia.^[274]
• Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland.^[275]
• Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist.^[276]
• Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness.^[277]
• Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease.^[278]
• Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator.^[279]
• Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer.^[280]

28

• Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes.^[281]
• Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac).^[282]
• Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease.^[283]
• Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest.^[284]
• Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.^[285]
• Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer.^[286]
• Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet.^[287]
• Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao.^[288]
• Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness.^[289]
• Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer.^[290]
• Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991).^[291]
• Umberto Silvestri, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler.^[292]
• Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932).^[293]
• John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure.^[294]

29

• Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.^[295]
• Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident.^[296]
• Reginald Golledge, 71, Australian-born American geographer.^[297]
• Phale Hale, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.^[298]
• Ed Murray, 80, American politician, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991).^[299]
• Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond).^[300]
• Steve Prest, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis.^[301]
• Karine Ruby, 31, French Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medal-winning snowboarder, fall.^[302]
• Matt Zabitka, 88, American sportswriter.^[303]

30

• Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter.^[304]
• Krystyna Borowicz, 86, Polish actress.^[305]
• Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980).^[306]
• Eva Dawes, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (1932), stroke.^[307]
• Roberto Falaschi, 77, Italian cyclist.^[308]
• Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.^[309]
• Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU.^[310]
• Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978).^[311]
• Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President Rudolf Kirchschläger.^[312]
• Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure.^[313]
• Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985).^[314]
• Alexander Obregón, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident.^[315]

31

• Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier.^[316]
• Millvina Dean, 97, British civil servant and cartographer, last living passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, pneumonia.^[317]
• Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer.^[318]
• Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate.^[319]
• Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer.^[320]
• Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes.^[321]
• Emil L. Smith, 97, American biochemist, heart attack.^[322]
• Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness.^[323]
• George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.^[324]